Brain Injury Tips

What is Intracranial hematoma?

An intracranial hematoma occurs when a blood vessel ruptures within your brain or between your skull and your brain. An intracranial hematoma often requires surgery to remove the blood.

Symptoms of Intracranial hematoma-

Headache
Vomiting
Loss of consciousness
Dizziness
Confusion
Lethargy
Seizures
Unequal pupil size
Weak limbs on one side of your body
Increased blood pressure
Causes of Intracranial ...more

The occasional difficulty in getting or keeping an erection is normal. It starts to become a problem when you re regularly having difficulty getting or maintaining an erection to the extent that you re purposefully avoiding intimate moments with your partner.

Erectile dysfunction takes many forms. Some guys with ED are unable to achieve an erection under any circumstances, while others can occasionally become erect. You can also suffer from ED if you have no trouble getting an erectio...more

Regardless of whether the cause is a tumor, trauma, stroke or any other illness, any injury which inflicts damage on your brain cells is considered to be a brain damage.

There are two types of brain damage, both of which interfere with the standard functioning of the brain.
They are:

Acquired brain injury (ABI): Either resulting from a tumor or a neurological illness, for instance a stroke, this type of brain injury originates from the cellular level and is commonly linke...more

A few Pune-based doctors have created history by successfully replacing 60 per cent of a four-year-old girl s damaged skull with a specially-made customised three-dimensional polyethylene bone.

This was reportedly the first ever skull implant surgery (also known as Cranioplasty) carried out in India. The 3D bone was made by a US-based firm as per the exact measurements and shape of the skull defect, which the little girl had sustained in a deadly car accident about a year ago.

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Ending one s life is terrible. But often, instead of analysing the patient s mental condition at that time, we tend to judge them. The most common cause for suicides is undoubtedly depression. Adverse social or financial conditions often contribute to the mental condition of patients. However, a recent paper published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology might change the way we think about suicides. Lena Brundin and her co-workers have come to the conclusion in the paper titled Role of inflam...more

The neurones in the brain are constantly reorganising their connections both functionally and physically according to the environment, your thinking and behaviour. This ability is known as neuroplasticity. Through neuroplasticity the nerve cells of brain can compensate for injury to some parts of the brain and enable a person to recover from stroke, birth abnormalities. It is also beneficial in treating autism, ADD, learning disabilities and helps manage obsessive compulsive disorders.

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Regardless of whether the cause is a tumor, trauma, stroke, or other illnesses, any injury which inflicts damage on your brain cells is considered to be a brain damage. There are two types of brain damage, both of which interfere with the standard functioning of the brain.

They are:

Acquired brain injury (ABI): Either resulting from a tumor or a neurological illness, for instance a stroke, this type of brain injury originates from the cellular level and is commonly linked wit...more

When a sudden bump, blow, or jolt occurs to the brain, it results in a traumatic brain injury. According to the area involved in the traumatic brain injury, the patient may lose his consciousness, or he may lose the function of any part of the body. In the first few weeks following a traumatic brain injury, rapid recovery occurs but slows down over the following years. Hence, in order to gain rapid recovery, physiotherapy treatment should be started immediately.

Why physiotherapy is hel...more

The very thought of injury to the brain itself is traumatizing. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) refers to destruction or damage of brain tissues because of a car crash, sudden fall, assault, gunshot wound, etc. Brain damage occurs due to a blow to the injured person's head, which whips the head backward and forward or from one side to the other. In a car crash, specific areas like the temporal and frontal lobes of the brain seem to get damaged. Many individuals wish to know about post brain injury ...more

Child Aphasia is complex disorder that is caused by damage to parts of the brain that controls language and speech. This disorder affects the child's ability to express herself through words and understand the speech of other people. The severity of the problem depends on the extent of the damage as well as the location of the damage. Since this is not an inborn trouble, therefore, you should be much more careful as so you notice that your kid is facing language disorder. A speech pathologist ca...more